Category: Government

Dauda Biu, a Deputy Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission has been appointed by President Mohammadu Buhari as Acting Corps Marshal of the agency as Boboye Oyeyemi, the erstwhile Corps Marshal bows out of the commission. The Former Corps Marshal, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, who retired from service on Sunday, July 24 will go down in history as the first Corps Marshal to be pulled out of service and the last founding father of the Corps According to a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal…

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has tasked the Department of State Services to arrest the Chief Imam of Bayero University, Kano, Sheikh Abubakar Jibril, for allegedly inciting Muslims against the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah. HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said Jibril was captured in a viral video allegedly telling his many Muslim followers to get the home address of Kukah and possibly attack the bishop. The group, in its statement on Monday, accused Jibril of sponsoring the attack on…

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Kubwa, on Friday, vacated the order of interim injunction that barred the All Progressive Congress, APC, from going ahead with its planned national convention. The interim order followed a suit that was lodged before the court by an aggrieved member of the party, Salisu Umoru. Plaintiff had among other things, prayed the court to direct the APC and its Chairman caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, to halt further action on the planned convention, pending the resolution of…

Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has approved the appointment of Senator Lekan Balogun as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. The approval follows a recommendation by the Olubadan-in-Council, according to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa. The statement quoted the governor as wishing the newly confirmed Olubadan a peaceful and eventful reign. The governor said, “I am pleased to announce the appointment of the Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Lekan Balogun as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. “The appointment is in line with…

A police helicopter that took off from Abuja has crashed at the Bauchi Airport, the Accident Investigation Bureau said on Thursday. However, no loss of life was recorded, the AIB noted. “There were some injuries but no fatality. According to the AIB, “On 26th January 2022, Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria was notified by Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) about an accident involving a Bell 429 helicopter with Registration Marks 5N-MDA owned and operated by Nigerian Police Force (NPF),” the statement said. “The accident occurred on 26th January 2022 around 7:30…

Several commuters are feared killed in a fatal accident at Fidiwo, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway this morning. The incident reportedly happened around 9 am when a fully loaded commercial bus heading for Lagos rammed into a diesel tanker. The Punch reported that the tanker was stopped by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Oyo State Command when the accident happened.

Chief Ernest Shonekan, the former head of the Interim National Government, the contraption that succeeded the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida in 1993, is dead. He was in charge of the Interim National Government from August 26, 1993 to November 17 of the same year. He was a former Managing Director and later chairman of UACN Plc. The 85yr old businessman died in Lagos on Tuesday. He was Abese of Egbaland

The Osi Olubadan of Ibadan, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has said the Otun Olubadan, Senator Lekan Balogun, is the next in line to ascend the throne of Olubadan. The stool became vacant due to the death of Oba Saliu Adetunji on Sunday. Ladoja, who is a former Oyo State Governor, said this on Thursday while receiving visitors at his residence in Bodija Ladoja said there was no controversy surrounding the next Olubadan. He also said he did not know anything about the letter written to Governor Seyi Makinde by a former…

A ten-member Olubadan-in-Council endorsed the nomination of Lekan Balogun, the Otun Olubadan and traditional prime minister of Ibadan to become the next Olubadan of Ibadanland even as his next in rank and former governor of Oyo State. Rashidi Ladoja, who is the Osi Olubadan, was absent when the endorsement was done. The 10 members made the announcement after Balogun addressed a press conference at Mapo Hall on Wednesday to commiserate with Ibadanland on the demise of Oba Saliu Adetunji. The kingmakers insisted that no court case would stop the appointment…

Otun Olubadan, Senator Lekan Balogun, is set to become the next Olubadan, according to the hierarchy of ascension to the throne being practised in Ibadanland. There are two lines of ascension to the throne, the Balogun and Otun lines, with the most senior on each line ascending the throne on rotational basis. Before the deceased monarch ascended the throne, he was the most senior from the Balogun line. With the turn of the Otun line to produce the king now, Balogun, who is the most senior on the line, is…

Nigerians on social media are excited as the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya ordered the immediate release of a detained female soldier, Private Sofiyat Akinlabi. The COAS ordered that the soldier be pardoned and released on Saturday after 11 days in detention. She was held on December 14, 2021, after she publicly accepted the marriage proposal of a youth corper simply identified as Remi at the National Youth Service Corps Orientation Camp in Yikpata, Kwara State. Many Nigerians and civil society organisations had since called for her release…

A total of  117 senior officers have been promoted by the Nigerian Army Council. Of the number,  41 Brigadier Generals were promoted to the rank of Major General, while 76 Colonels were promoted to Brigadier General. The Director of Army Public Relations Brigadier General, Onyema Nwachukwu disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. He listed those promoted to the rank of Major General include Brigadier General CU Onwunle Director, Directorate of Army Data Processing Lagos, Brigadier General M Danmadami Research Fellow/Subject Expert, Indian Sub-Continental at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre Abuja,…

Hundreds of residents and business owners have been thrown into confusion following their inability to ply the Magodo Phase 2 estate gates to navigate their destinations in and out of the estate located in the Shangisha area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the Magodo Residents Association closed the estate gates after suspected landgrabbers led by men of the Nigerian police force invaded the estate to claim possession of property in the estate on Tuesday. During the invasion, the suspected landgrabbers, while being fortified by the police, used red…

Just as rescue operations is about to be rounded off at the site of the 21-storey building which collapsed on Gerrard Road, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, the death toll in the tragedy has climbed to 44. According to sources on the ground at the site, “on Sunday that two more bodies were recovered from the rubble, which increased the death toll to 44.” The source said one of the bodies was recovered around 8pm on Saturday, while the other body was recovered around midnight. “The recovery operation…

Families of dead victims of the 21-storey building which collapse on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Saturday, besieged Lagos Mainland Hospital morgue in the Yaba area of the state to identify corpses of their loved ones. Eyewitness at the mortuary on Saturday afternoon observed a mix of emotions deep sorrow, tears and anger as families went into the mortuary premises. National Infinity reports that the skyscraper owned by Fourscore Heights Limited collapsed in the afternoon of Monday, November 1, 2021, trapping over 50 persons, including the firm’s Managing Director, Femi…

The owner of Fourscore Heights Ltd, Femi Osibona was conspicuously missing on the list as Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu read out the names of survivors of the Monday afternoon 21 storey building that collapsed in Ikoyi who are presently undergoing treatment at the Lagos Island General Hospital, Marina. The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, read out the names and ages of the survivors who were found under the rubble while addressing the press during his second visit to the site on Wednesday. According to the governor, six of the nine…

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the suspension of the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mr. Gbolahan Oki, The governor also said the government would find out what went wrong and punish those indicted in the 21-storey building that collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos State on Monday. The death toll in Lagos building collapse has increased to 14, the state government confirmed on Tuesday. The government also said nine men were also rescued alive, adding that more equipment and personnel have been deployed to the site…

Prowess Engineering Limited, the company that began the construction of the building which collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday withdrew from the project in February 2020, according to a letter now circulating online. The company withdrew its services on grounds that it no longer shared the same vision with its client believed to be Fourscore Heights Limited as addressed in the letter. Prowess Engineering Limited, which had constructed two other buildings for its client, said it couldn’t guarantee the integrity of the third (collapsed building) from anything above the fourth…